# Software Engineer, Backend (Partner 16, Partner 18) at Andreessen Horowitz

- Company: Andreessen Horowitz
- What the company does: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
- Company website: https://a16z.com/
- Type: VC firms
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $269K to $314K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://a16z.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=7619570003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/andreessen-horowitz-software-engineer-backend-partner-16-partner-18/

## About the role

You will join a fully functional team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for the firm’s investing and operations teams. You are a detail-oriented backend engineer with a strong interest in developing feature-rich, data-driven applications. Your work will focus on identifying, acquiring, and normalizing alternative data sources, and on designing and implementing secure, scalable backend systems that power our internal products.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python 3 (or another backend language) and willingness to learn new technologies
- Experience deploying production services on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience working with production SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch)
- Experience building and deploying containerized services, familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus
- Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence

Tags: a16z Software Group